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Most of the documentation on this site (and thus, this page) applies to 1.0. By far the most important change is that opencli is now called openpanel-cli.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frequently asked questions are prefixed with an "Q:" (question). Likely errors are prefixed with an "E:" (error) and describe the type of error, the specific error message has a deeper heading.

Installation

Q: "Should I install this software on a live / production server?"

A: "Not if it's on a server that already running and critical, but.."

There is no problem in installing it on a vanilla system, and using this setup for production.

E: Broken packages

Depends: openpanel-mod-postfixcourier but it is not going to be installed

Use aptitude to install your OpenPanel packages. It will offer to deinstall exim for you.

E: Errors were encountered while processing: openpanel-mod-ftp

If you are on an OpenVZ VPS, check out [1]

GUI

E: Connection refused

The server does not respond at port 4089

(Re)start the openpanel-ssl service

# /etc/init.d/openpaneld restart

This is wrong as the openpaneld service no longer exists in the latest version

E: "The connection to <server>:4089 was interrupted"

using "curl https://localhost:4089 -kv" I retrieved the error:

# curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to 149.255.97.64:4089

E: How can I view the logs of connection attempts to the openpanel gui

# waiting to find out, but none of the log files in /var/openpanel/log seem to say anything

E: 404 Not Found

Is openpanel-gui installed?

Services

E: Login failed

login onto the imap/pop3/ftp/etc server failed

Perhaps contrary to what you're used to: accounts always have the extension "@domainname" attached to them. So if you add a user john to the domain foo.com it's login for the imap emailbox is "john@foo.com" the same applies for example for ftp-accounts.

E: No route to host / service

Make sure the appropriate ports are not blocked by for example a firewall

Hosting

Python

Django

Openpanel hosting for django

Make sure you have mod_python enabled. For debian and ubuntu:

   sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
   sudo a2enmod python

Open your website's openpanel inc directory to store your configuration directives. In my case

/etc/apache2/openpanel.d/www.yoursite.co.ke.inc/django.conf

If you want to server static content (django /static),let apache do it by add the following

    Alias /static/ /home/penguins/web/www.yoursite.co.ke/django/static/
    <Directory "/home/penguins/web/www.yoursite.co.ke/django/static/">
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

     #Don't let django do it's magic

    <Location "/static">
        SetHandler None
    </Location>

    #Serving the actual site
    <Location "/">
       SetHandler python-program
       PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
       SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE YOURPROJECTNAME.settings
       PythonPath "['/home/penguins/web/www.yoursite.co.ke/'] + sys.path"
       PythonDebug On
    </Location>

Reload apache and you are good to go

Email

Encrypted Email

I found lots of tutorials on the net about how to do this and I found myself in a very sticky situation, people recommended using dovecot for SASL, then I found another which said to use cyrus, etc, etc, basically, it's much much easier than that.

open a ssh connection to your server
login as root, or use sudo, cause you're going to execute commands to alter the system
apt-get install courier-pop-ssl
open your browser and navigate to your openpanel gui installation
login and open the firewall
add port 995, call it something like encrypted pop3, use TCP protocol
edit /etc/postfix/main.cf
remove the entry which says "smtp_use_tls", just delete the line
add a new line, type: smtp_tls_security_level = may
save the file and run /etc/init.d/postfix restart

OpenPanel: editing email account "failed to open userdb.dat"

I once found that you can sometimes follow the wrong tutorial and break stuff without realising it. One thing I broke was I ran postmap userdb and it output a Berkerley DB formatted userdb, which I then used as userdb.dat, I did this because a tutorial told me that if you see in the logs that one file is out of date and the other file is newer, to do it, I realised afterwards this was a bad idea(tm).

It was very stupid, but I didnt understand at the time.

userdb.dat should be in GDBM format, not Berkerley format, if you happen to also make this mistake, do this to correct it:

makedat -src=userdb -file=userdb.dat -tmp=x
chown openpanel-core openpanel-core userdb.dat

now try editing the email account, it should work without a fault.

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